Thank you for joining us, Mr. Kelloway. Since this is the transport committee, I want to thank you for your work on getting those tolls lowered. That comes into effect today, and I know it's going to be really meaningful for the people you represent. Thank you for your hard work on that.
Now is a moment when we have to really, in a profound way, rewire the Canadian economy. It has to start with procurement. As I mentioned, I have been an advocate and have really been thinking about how we need to change our procurement policy. We need to go to a reciprocal procurement policy, a buy Canadian policy in which we support Canadian workers and our sectors that are being hard hit and, where we cannot buy Canadian, seek to buy from countries with whom we have a reciprocal procurement agreement. We need to do that urgently. It is a different approach from the one that previous Canadian governments have taken. That's why I wrote 71 letters, in June, to the agencies controlled by Transport Canada, and said that we have to change how we do things.
I do want to point out that specific attention has, quite rightly, been paid to steel, aluminum and lumber. These industries are going to have to be brought into a conversation with manufacturers and government procurers at all levels, so that they can be producing the inputs that the manufacturers need. That's a conversation we have to have urgently. As we do that, they can fill up their order books going forward. That is going to provide the security for the workers and families whom Mr. Lawrence, quite rightly, invoked.